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11/06/2009
Video: She's just so mean-spirited. There's really no nice way to say it.
It's fitting that Maggie would record this video for the Catholic News Agency, considering the National Organization For Marriage is essentially a Catholic front group. It's also fitting that she'd gloat over her ability to dupe a majority margin of...'Opposite booked'
TMZ is reporting that in light of recent events, rumors, revelations, and conjecture, "opposite marriage" advocate Carrie Prejean has either been dropped or chose to remove herself from tonight's New Jersey Family Policy Council benefit: Prejean -- Family Doesn't Always...Randall T's Tea Party: Easy on the Chamomile, Heavy on the Bloody Nancies
As you watch this window into the nutty, remember that the man in charge of it, Randall Terry, loathes the gay rights movement too: Go Inside The Tea Party Rally With Randall Terry [Right Wing Watch] As advocates for both...One must have goals
Maggie has a plan: "Can the powerful gay-marriage movement be stopped? I don't know. I promise you one thing though: I am going to find out." Despair [NRO] Eh, it's a living. So is this:NOM-ma needs a new pair of 'shoo, get away gays!'
NOM blew its wad in Maine. So Brian Brown's breaking out the theatrical money pleas, turning to self-aggrandization and attacks on the "bloated bureuacracy" of HRC to help fill their costly coffers: Yea, you wanna play the "bloated bureaucracy" game?...Well at least our threatened deaths will come after the 'left wing liberals.'
This from a reader in Powder Springs, GA: *Comment source: Carrie tends to her Garden [G-A-Y] So wait, opposition: Tell us again about how gays are "militant" and how the rise in right-wing extremism is just a myth. We've been...People who live in glass Ed Sullivan Theaters...
Dave's sh*t? Rosie ain't having it: Ask Ro [Rosie.com] Meanwhile, we're suggesting that we all change the name of "existence" to: "We never really leave the school playground, do we?"Lessons from a solid campaign
We did so much right in Maine, that it's hard to fault specifics about the campaign. But after committing so much time to this particular fight, I do come away with a few personal takeaways. Consider: The schools issue: It...11/05/2009
They intimidate, says Tony the anti-equality intimidator
Age 8: Lil' Tony Perkins: I was just sitting here eating my sandwiches, and they went and complained on me. intimidation is what they do best Principal Orak Bobama: But Lil' Tony, didn't you actually take their sandwiches away from...Souled out: Scozzafava loses race, wins much insight into Team Morality™
"If the type of hatred, and the name calling and the lies and innuendo is the soul of our party, all is not well with thy soul" -Former NY-23 Candidate Dede Scozzafava, on the hostility that her own party, as...Audio: Weird, why didn't they call us 'the enemy' in their official ads?
During the campaign, she was simply a "teacher": Now Charla's back in her real, always-was role: Campaign worker who fallaciously hid her affiliations (and the fact that she teaches as a small, private, Christian school), likely because the "yes" campaign...11/10/09: The start of NY's equality countdown?
Who needs lobster when you can have a bagel: Governor Paterson calls for Nov. 10 vote on marriage equality bill Statement by Empire State Pride Agenda Executive Director Alan Van Capelle November 5, 2009 “Marriage equality has been an issue...Video: Gee, with logic this sound, it's no wonder we lost
Thanks so much, Maine majority!Take that, Maine soup kitchens!
$115,266: That's the grand total of Focus on the Family's donations to Maine to combat equality: Focus donates $115,266 to Maine gay marriage fight [AP via Boston Globe] Just one of the many hundreds of thousands of dollars that the...Like gay activists, Minnery wanted 'NO' vote; not liking gay activists the reason why
The Maine legislature had passed marriage equality and signed it into law. You know, the way we enact laws in this nation: via our elected lawmakers. That's what the elected Maine legislature did when they obtained a principled, reasoned "yes"...Perez v. Bias
Via 1600 Pennsylvania comes this, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act testimony of Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez: AAG Perez.testimony.11.05.09Video: What, was the Museum of Unfortunate Civil Rights Missteps closed or something?
The nerve of her: Maggie Gallagher, head of NOM, attends pro-gay marriage rally in DC; still supports Carrie Prejean [video] [Metro Weekly]Carrie tends to her Garden
Tomorrow night, Carrie Prejean will be in New Jersey, teaching Garden Staters about the virtues of marriage, Christianity, sanctity, and all that nonsense: She'll surely have much to talk about: We have more info on Carrie Prejean's abrupt about-face during...Video: Savage, both the vote and the pundit
Countdown [MSNBC]Maine: You were duped
Maine's longtime anti-gay leader, Mike Heath, is revealing some very interesting points in his latest blog post. For one, he confirms exactly what we told you for many months, which is that even though his ties with them run deep,...From dirt will spring a new Garden
This from Star-Ledger columnist Tom Moran: The political stars, for a few brief months, sit in alignment for a move to legalize gay marriage in New Jersey. And we could do it the right way — not with a court...11/04/2009
I think what infuriates me the most...
...is that our opposition will never realize, admit, or take responsibility for the gut-wrenching sense of de-humanity that they inflict upon us. Had Maine's "yes on 1" side lost last night, each and every one of the folks invested in...Dear 'fierce advocate':
Maine's elephant in the room? Let's instead let Equality California address a major donkey that was not in the room: The Obama administration was absent in yet another critical fight for the soul of our nation. His failure to speak...Charla takes off 'everyday citizen' mask, puts on press-released spokesperson hat
We of course knew that Charla Bansley is much more than a mere school teacher. And now that the anti-gay forces no longer need to scare voters with the TV spot into which they disingenuously cast her, they too can...Video: Person of faith apologize for using gay slur? F*getabouit!
It's totally okay for Chandler, Arizona's The Door Christian Center to use the word "f*ggot" in their version of a haunted house. you know, because "people say stuff all the time":Remember when Bishops found 'good sermon' to be enough of a thank you?
There is something wrong with America when a faith-based organization who bankrolled a campaign to rollback legislatively enacted CIVIL rights includes a line like this in their post-election political press release: Bishop Richard Malone of the Diocese of Portland provided...Nobody on our side wants millions of people to deexist!
A majority of Mainers voted to embolden this: "stop the homosexualist political movement" "Surely we don't want to build a society where our children and grandchildren are encouraged to invent new perversions to avoid boredom" "The path to sanity is...Video: Recipe for a "traditional marriage" victory:
Start with the idea that civil rights should be put to majority vote Add copious amounts of NOM money. Stir in every last ounce of personal faith you can find (regardless of if you're working in a civil kitchen) Sprinkle...Trying to smile
Through the unbelievably dark cloud that was Maine, many of us struggled to see the silver linings that are Kalamazoo and Washington state. Now the Victory Fund's Chuck Wolfe lets us in on a few more: It was tough to...What scares me about Maine...
...is that we did most everything right. The campaign was extremely tight, the money and humanpower rolled in, the ads were well done, the Netroots were tapped in an amazingly effective way, and the unbelievable lies were diced up and...Lies about schools + certified hate group = moral victory?!
What helped tipped the balance toward bias in Maine? Well according to Peter LaBarbera, it was the contribution of Brian Camenker, the leader of a SPLC-designated hate group: In the final days of the campaign, Americans For Truth and MassResistance...Some Mainers who voted against your 'whacky oversexed version of progress'
Congratulations, gay Mainers. You have lost your equal citizenship to this: Stand for Marriage Maine [Facebook] "Sign a petition to end this foolishness." That's truly what they think of us, that a pull of a lever or a move of...We go to bed more hurt, more unequal, more hated, more harassed, more dehumanized. Sleep well.
They lied. They dehumanized. They used personal faith to address civil law. They sought out any and every opportunity to confuse the issue. They went after anyone who got in their paths, with zero to less-than-zero regard for the well-being...11/03/2009
Live from the Portland Holiday Inn, it's Maine's night to make history grave historical error
7:21PM: Cautious optimism in the Maine party room. Bloggers a'bloggin'. Staffers a nail-bitin'. Jeremy on first glass of Merlot. 7:36PM: Rex Wockner has a shot of the bloggers table, as well as his own live coverage. 7:44PM: Bangor Daily News...
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